{"id":2427,"date":"2024-11-13T16:47:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/trump-thanks-biden-for-smooth-transition\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:47:46","slug":"trump-thanks-biden-for-smooth-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-thanks-biden-for-smooth-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump thanks Biden for smooth transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump thanked President Joe Biden for overseeing a smooth transition of power during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday that marked the rivals\u2019 first face-to-face meeting since the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate very much a transition that\u2019s so smooth,\u201d Trump said as the two men sat stiffly in oversized chairs, a fire roaring in the background. \u201cIt\u2019ll be as smooth as it can get and I very much appreciate that, Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re welcome,\u201d a smiling Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, normally a formality between presidents, represented a striking contrast from four years ago, when Biden was poised to take the White House after unseating Trump. At that time, Trump refused to extend the courtesy of the invitation and instead spent the following weeks trying to overturn the results of the election.<\/p>\n<p>In the Oval Office on Wednesday, the two acted cordially toward each other. Biden congratulated Trump on his victory, and after their brief opening remarks, they exchanged words and smiles as they waited for reporters to leave the room.<\/p>\n<p>Trump at the outset of the meeting, however, did nod toward the viciousness of the campaign \u2014 taking apparent satisfaction that he had ended up on top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitics is tough and in many cases it\u2019s not a nice world,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut it is a nice world today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump thanked President Joe Biden for overseeing a smooth transition of power during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday that marked the rivals\u2019 first face-to-face meeting since the election. \u201cI appreciate very much a transition that\u2019s so smooth,\u201d Trump said as the two men sat stiffly in oversized chairs, a fire roaring in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}